Medical Definition of Hospital gangrene

1. A chronic ulcer that appears in pressure areas in debilitated patients confined to bed or otherwise immobilised, due to a circulatory defect from the enhanced tissue pressure in high-contact areas, often occurring over a bony prominence (for example sacral decubitus). (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hospital Gangrene

hospital auxiliaries
hospital bed
hospital bed capacity
hospital care
hospital chaplain
hospital charges
hospital communication systems
hospital corner
hospital corners
hospital costs
hospital departments
hospital design and construction
hospital distribution systems
hospital fever
hospital formulary
hospital gangrene (current term)
hospital information systems
hospital mortality
hospital nurse
hospital occupancy
hospital planning
hospital record
hospital records
hospital restructuring
hospital room
hospital shared services
hospital ship
hospital ships
hospital shops

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